Life Reading Follows Your Heart

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The Power Of Focus

When we learn the art of meditation, we learn to focus on our awareness and silence our thoughts. Therefore, focus is not thought. To meditate is not to think about nothing; it is simply to stop thinking. However, without focus, this interruption of thoughts becomes impossible, as our ego is attached to thoughts and manipulates them. Focusing on our awareness means tuning into cosmic energy, and that is the true purpose of meditation: to free ourselves from the ego and connect to our Primordial Source. Focus is the opposite of the ego. As a Reiki master would say, meditating is tuning the human receiver to the Divine Emitter (Johnny De’ Carli). This attunement requires focus. Focus is not thought; focus is convergence. To converge on a point is to become that point – without obstacles, interferences, or detours. Thus, everything we could desire in life depends more on focus and less on thought.

This sense of focus implies the existence of faith, without faith necessarily being a religious concept – since even believing in God does not require anyone to hold a religious belief. It is enough to believe in this intelligent energy that creates and surrounds everything, with which we can communicate through intuition – that inexplicable thing that helps us not give up and keep moving forward.

Contrary to intuition, focus is something scientifically proven through the effect of its vibration. A researcher from the Hado Institute in Japan, Dr. Masaru Emoto, demonstrated the effect of focus by freezing water samples under the influence of various types of vibration, including human focus. The following images illustrate an experiment resulting from freezing a small sample of polluted water collected from the Fujiwara dam and exposed to the vibration of prayer.

More experiences under the influence of other vibrations like words, sounds and even images, on the website hado.com.

This experiment demonstrates how vibrations can influence human beings, given that we are composed of 70% water. Our entire body reacts according to the vibration received or emitted. Depending on that vibration, the body can respond in surprising ways, including levitation, the revelation of dormant astral memories, and the awakening of divine abilities, such as healing through the hands. Naturally, this is neither sudden nor easy, as we are not made of water alone. The effect of vibration requires time, consistency, and receptivity. Some people will be more capable than others, depending on their mental profiles, physical health, and habits. However, the power to facilitate this process is within everyone’s reach. In this way, it becomes understandable how focus can channel a person toward a goal – whether through prayer, meditation, mantra, intuition, vision, or another sense. Once someone concentrates on a goal, in some way they become the vibration of that goal.

And why focus instead of concentration? Aren’t they identical concepts in this context? Concentration may be only a part of focus, like its preparation. Focus is both a noun and a verb – that is, it is the point and the action simultaneously, which is why it attracts. This is how ideas such as the law of attraction, spread by the New Thought Movement, the technique of miracles taught by Hasidic Jews, or the power of prayer advocated by Reiki practitioners arise, and so on. Focus attracts – it’s simple. A person focuses on someone in a public space, and that person will eventually look back. Someone falls deeply in love with another person and ends up attracting a series of coincidences involving that person’s name. Concentration does not attract, and that is why it is easy to become distracted during concentration, but not during focus. One cannot remain concentrated all the time, but it is possible to act continuously under the influence of focus. Praying without focus will ultimately nullify the meaning and purpose of prayer through distraction. If someone starts an ambitious project without focus, it is very likely that they will soon be manipulated by the ego. The ego detests failure, perceiving it as humiliation, and therefore uses doubt and low self-esteem as defense mechanisms. The person will end up convincing themselves that they will never succeed, but they are merely being dominated by the ego, fueled by a lack of focus.

Obviously, this article needs to be placed in a reasonable context – no one is going to focus on becoming an Olympic swimming champion at 80 years old. This does not mean that achieving unimaginable feats is impossible, but rather that a certain amount of common sense or maturity is also necessary.

Life Reading Follows Your Heart

Without true faith, there is no true focus; without focus, there is no vibration; and without vibration, there is no effect. Without belief, nothing works. Even science, without belief, ceases to make sense. Not believing in anything is unnatural – it contradicts the law of the Universe, whose creation nearly 14 billion years ago was so extraordinary and so meticulously calculated that it could not have occurred by chance or random coincidence; it must have been created. Therefore, it is impossible to deny the existence of a super intelligent energy guided by some kind of mysterious intention – the essence of Einstein’s argument about the formula of God.

However, it is also necessary to mention that focus can work for both good and evil, depending on what one focuses on. It is possible to die from grief, longing, pain, or sadness – wrong focus. Suicide – wrong focus. Some illnesses – wrong focus. Some accidents – wrong focus. And so on. The worst kind of focus is the one that is not intentional, the one we are not even aware of, which begins slowly and takes shape in disguise – a kind of involuntary focus created by the ego in reaction to something, whether an event, a memory, or a feeling. Therefore, once again, the best path to a positive and intentional focus is total control of the ego. The best tools to support this are prayer, gratitude, and meditation.

Traditional Japanese Reiki explains in an extraordinary way this dynamic between prayer and meditation: through prayer, we speak to God, and through meditation, we allow Him to respond, thus establishing a dialogue with our Primordial Source. Even if there is ego in the act of praying, in meditation it dissolves – otherwise, one cannot truly meditate. Practiced daily, this exercise ultimately generates the right vibration for any necessary change. Hasidic Judaism teaches how to generate miracles through gratitude. No less remarkable than the Reiki concept, the Hasidic principle explains that prayer generally contains within it a complaint – something that is asked of God, in other words, a part of the ego. If, instead of praying, we give thanks for everything we have and everything we do not have, for both good and bad, then instead of receiving from God, we offer something of ourselves, ignoring the ego. What Reiki calls a divine dialogue through meditation, Hasidism calls a change in the divine will through gratitude; thus, giving thanks especially for what is bad will lead God to transform it into good, without asking or taking, but solely through the altruistic energy of gratitude. These are wonderful techniques for freeing ourselves from the ego and facilitating the practice of focus.

The power of focus through meditation also reaches other dimensions over the years, in the very long term. Especially after the age of 40, we begin to master life reading through the heart, but in a privileged connection with the maturity of our spirit. Nuances of our existence are revealed, as retrospective view of our own life filled with symbols and related events that we had never interpreted in other ways before. The mind reaches other levels of understanding, and deeper layers of self-knowledge are unveiled. In this way, life takes on exceptional richness, and we begin to truly enjoy it.

> Music piece to stimulate focus, by the sax player Amy Dickson| Philip Glass – Violin Concerto No 1. (2nd movement).

The Challenge

Create a prayer and recite it daily for 20 minutes, giving thanks not for all the good you have received, but for all the bad, whether it be things you lack or everything that hurts and limits you. Write about the result of this experience three months later.